The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1887-10-07
Major Phipps was released from Moya-

Major Phipps was released from Moya-
mensing prison last Friday.
Seventy-fye of the 81 counties in Ter
nessee give 17,158 majority against the
Prohibition amendment.
Nelson Reed, of Stanhope, Sussex coun-
ty, raised seven pumpkins a%ggrcgating $50
pounds in weight, the largest weighing Sc
pounds.
Ex-Congressman Howey, who ran for
Governor against Robert S. Green last fall,
has been nominated for State Senator by
the Republicans of Warren county.
Since the first Of April the seabright
Fishing Association has caught and sold
$50, 600 worth of fish. There are forty
five men employed by the association.
Diphtheria is prevailing in burlington,
and deaths are Of almost daily occurrence.
Sixty children are reported ill with the
disease. The schools have been closed.
a cow belonging to a milkman near
Plainield died with symptoms of pleuro-
pneumonia. Dir. J. II. Forster disseeted
the animal and found firmly imbeddcd in
the heart a sewing machine needle.
Diphtheria prevails in a most v%irulent
form in the lower part of Warren county.
\ number of deaths of young people have
already occurred. The schools at Buttz-
Vile have been closed until the disease ex-
ponds its force.
The veterans of the Twenty-ffth regi-
ment of New Jersey Volunteers will hold
a reunion at Paterson, on December 18th,
the twenty-fGth anniversary of the battle
of Fredericksburg, which was the first en-
gagemant il which the regiment took
part.
The two international Yacht Races, one
over the so-called inside course leading
from New York harbor, and the other over
the OUTSIDE course, were won ON Tuesday
and Friday of last week by the American
sloop ''Yolunteer," sailing against the
Scotch cutter Thistle"
The Prohibitionists OF Burlington county
on Saturday made the following nomina-
tons: Sheriff, Charles B. Coles; County
Collector, johnson Oatman, Jr.; Auditor,
Andreas Ridgway; Almshouse Steward,
Isaiah Pope; Coroners, r.. II. Mccarthy
and T. Clifford Keller.
The Board Of Health, of Burlington has
forbidden the shoe ma uiacturers to burn
leather chips under their boilers for fuel,
on the ground of creating an unwnolesome
stencil. The proprietors announce their
intention Of contesting their right to con-
tiauc the burnin. Of the chips.
The electric light in the upheld hand of
the Statue Of Liberty, on Bedloc's Island,
is proving wonderfully fatal to birds,
which are attracted by the great glare.
On a recent morning 1875 dead Bodies,
actual count, were found about the statue,
among them being specimens of more than
one hundred distinct species. The largest
bird was a Canadian w~oodpeeker. 1t
measured thirteen inches from wing to wing
and its girth was correspondingly great.
The smallest bird was a lovely plumaged
humming bird.
IIightstown is having administered doses
Of Temperance at present which do not
please the saloon and hotel keepers. Rev.
George II. Nlbbcrt is holding a series of
prohibition meetings which are crowded
nightly, and in addition one Of the city or
d~inances just passed by the Council was
enforced on Saturday night by Mayor
Chamberlin, WHO ordered all liquor and
beer places in town closed at 10 o'clock,
sharp, which ma ndate was promptly
obeyed. the first time this has been done
in the towns history. Sunday afternoon
a large temperance mass meeting was held
and q union meeting of all the churches
in the evening,